Chapter Summaries

Blue Star’s experts verified the nuclear fusion data and concluded that the Qian Star person was likely an alien, prompting the creation of the secretive Nantianmen Project. Meanwhile, Gu Jinlai remained wary of the Demonic Beasts of Tianhe and Muzhou, as a survivor from Dragon Sparrow Manor reached the Yellow Heaven Dao Sect.

• Experts confirmed that the transmitted data could enable a nuclear fusion engine and potentially advance controlled fusion technology.
• Qiu Yuyu argued that the Qian Star person came from a different civilization, and twelve of the fourteen officials present voted to recognize him as an alien.
• The kingdom established the Nantianmen Project, giving it broad authority and assigning it to oversee the release of laser cannon and electromagnetic cannon technology.
• Gu Jinlai watched the still-unresponsive Demonic Beasts of Tianhe and Muzhou, while a survivor from Dragon Sparrow Manor arrived at the Yellow Heaven Dao Sect.

Yun Chan told the Yellow Heaven Dao Sect that Dragon Sparrow Manor had four hundred portions of Immortal Gold, prompting its leaders to plot against Star Province. As they arranged to let the Tianhe Demonic Beasts invade Star Province, Gu Jinlai arrived at Autumn Mountain to prepare for the opening Demon Realm rift.

• Yun Chan told Zhang Lingjian that Dragon Sparrow Manor had refined four hundred portions of Immortal Gold to trade for a Fortune Immortal Fruit, and Zhang placed her under protection that was effectively house arrest.
• Zhang Lingjian met with Zhang Taiping, Tao Changle, Zhao Danqing, and Yu Xuanjing, and they agreed that attacking Star Province could bring them the Immortal Gold and settle their grudge with Gu Jinlai.
• Zhang Lingjian claimed Gu Jinlai had already used the Aries Star Palace treasure that enabled his Celestial-level attack, and proposed defeating Gu Jinlai and Xin Tianqi separately.
• Zhang Taiping proposed letting King Crocodile Dragon lead Demonic Beasts through the Jade Belt River into Star Province, sacrificing civilians while the Yellow Heaven Dao Sect withdrew its elites and later sought to expand into Jiang Province.
• Zhang Lingjian went to meet King Crocodile Dragon, while Gu Jinlai arrived at Autumn Mountain with eight nuclear fusion engine models and refined heavy water as the Demon Realm rift neared opening.

Gu Jinlai and four Grand Celestial Masters guarded a stable Demon Realm rift while he demonstrated the perfected Great Sun Ninefold Refinement Visualization Method. Zhang Lihuo comprehended Gu Jinlai’s techniques and advanced into the Heavenly Lord realm, giving Lingxiao City a second Heavenly Lord.

• Gu Jinlai explained that he had brought the Grand Celestial Masters to guard the rift and show them the power of the perfected Great Sun Ninefold Refinement Visualization Method.
• Zhang Yukun killed the first Demonic Spirit with her Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique, demonstrating the method’s greatly enhanced power.
• The Grand Celestial Masters killed the creatures emerging from the rift while Gu Jinlai refined nuclear materials and prepared a nuclear fusion engine.
• As the rift widened and stronger Demonic Spirits appeared, Gu Jinlai demonstrated his Great Sun soul techniques and let the others study his Great Sun Core.
• Zhang Lihuo comprehended Gu Jinlai’s techniques, sublimated his soul, condensed a True Spirit, and advanced to the Heavenly Lord realm.

Gu Jinlai found the Qiushan demonic realm rift too weak to be worthwhile and considered investigating larger rifts after consulting the Aries Star Palace. After learning that the Yellow Heaven Sect was conspiring with the Tianhe Demonic Beasts, he ordered the Southern Heavenly Alliance to ambush and destroy them.

• Gu Jinlai questioned Si Tianyan about what lay beyond demonic realm rifts and decided to seek information from the Aries Star Palace and the Heavenly Dragon Wood.
• After the Qiushan rift closed, Gu Jinlai learned about a rumored rift in Xiyan Province but chose to focus on the confirmed rifts in Tianhe and Muzhou.
• Zhang Lihuo thanked Gu Jinlai for helping him reach the Heavenly Lord realm and promised to finish the Blackbird fighter jet's weapons configuration in half a month.
• Gu Jinlai sensed that the Yellow Heaven Sect's destiny was connected to the Tianhe Demonic Beasts and inferred that the sect planned to exploit their attack on Star Province.
• Gu Jinlai rejected Gu Qingmei's proposal to attack the Yellow Heaven Sect without evidence and ordered the Southern Heavenly Alliance to ambush the Tianhe Demonic Beasts after they were lured away.

Yellow Heaven Sect struggled to respond after Lingxiao City announced a joint campaign against the Heavenly River demonic beasts, forcing its leaders to pretend to cooperate while hoping the beasts would target Gu Jinlai first. The chapter ended with the demonic beasts launching a massive assault on Yellow Heaven Sect, apparently intending to destroy it before confronting Lingxiao City.

• Lingxiao City publicized a plan to divide the campaign along the Jade-Belt River, prompting Yellow Heaven Sect disciples to demand a chance to fight.
• Zhang Taiping revealed that the Alligator Dragon King had agreed to let the beasts cross the Jade-Belt River, while Yellow Heaven Sect's leaders worried the new announcement would destroy his trust.
• Zhao Danqing proposed attacking Lingxiao City alongside the beasts, but Zhang Taiping rejected the plan as a way to make Yellow Heaven Sect a public enemy.
• Zhang Lingjian persuaded the leaders to cooperate publicly while keeping their forces defensive and letting Gu Jinlai draw the beasts' attacks.
• Zhang Taiping went to contact the Alligator Dragon King, and Yellow Heaven Sect's experts deployed to organize defenses.
• Yu Fan warned Zhang Lingjian that the Heavenly River and Alligator Dragon Marsh beasts had surged south in overwhelming numbers and were attacking Yellow Heaven Sect's fortresses.

Gu Jinlai led Star Province’s army toward the Jade Belt River to confront nearly 100,000 Demonic Beasts advancing from Heavenly River. Yu Jin urged him to abandon his main force and use his elite troops to intercept the first wave, while warning that Star Province’s people faced annihilation if the invasion continued.

• Gu Jinlai assembled 100,000 troops, Demon God Guards, cultivators, Celestial Masters, and Sharp Sword Heavy Cannons for the campaign against the Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Jinlai changed the army’s destination from Nongtang Mountain to Eighteen Pavilions, near Yellow Province’s Great Cloud Sky City.
• Yu Jin arrived with news that nearly 100,000 Demonic Beasts were advancing south along the Jade Belt River toward Star Province.
• Yu Jin said the Yellow Heaven Sect’s leaders were defending against some of the beasts, but Star Province would have to face the rest.
• Yu Jin urged Gu Jinlai to lead his 6,000 elite special forces to intercept the first wave, recruit up to three million soldiers, and call on allied sects for help.

Gu Jinlai negotiated with Yu Jin over how Star Province would confront the nearly one hundred thousand Tianhe Demonic Beasts, agreeing to march north while securing supplies and cooperation from Yellow Heaven Sect. He discovered a simultaneous, even larger Demonic Beast assault on the Cold Moon Sect and sought reinforcements, then ordered his army to advance faster.

• Gu Jinlai rejected an immediate attack on the Tianhe Demonic Beasts and persuaded Yu Jin that his army would march to Eighteen Pavilions to establish defenses.
• Gu Jinlai asked Yu Jin to arrange supplies along the route and cooperation from Yuntian City's garrison, citing Lingxiao City's past suspicions of Yellow Heaven Sect.
• After Yu Jin departed, Gu Jinlai sensed that the Demonic Beasts of Mu Province were attacking the Cold Moon Sect with even greater force than the Tianhe host.
• Gu Jinlai sent word to the Purgatory Sect and Yellow Springs Sect to reinforce the Cold Moon Sect.
• Jiang Chongshan offered his jade pendant to request aid from the Great Qian imperial family, and Gu Jinlai accepted.
• Gu Jinlai ordered his army to accelerate its advance northward.

The Purgatory Sect and Yellow Springs Sect sent aid as the Demonic Beasts threatened the provinces south of Tianhe, while Emperor Jiang Tianji pursued a dangerous path to strengthen himself. He appointed Gu Jinlai governor of Star Province and ordered limited imperial support, as Gu Jinlai’s army took control of Cloudsky City and faced the Demonic Beasts’ advance.

• Liu Jingt​​ao agreed to lead Purgatory Sect reinforcements to the Cold Moon Sect, while Lu Zhanxian said he would help Lingxiao City if it requested aid.
• Jiang Tianji purified the distracting thoughts carried by the people’s destiny and resolved to forge an indestructible golden body despite Zhou Ji’s warnings.
• Jiang Tianji appointed Gu Jinlai governor of Star Province, Jiang Zhongshan governor of Jiang Province and Yu Province, and ordered Shang Zhenbei to take the Iron Dragon Army south.
• Gu Jinlai’s army entered Cloudsky City and took control of it as local forces prepared its defenses.
• The Yellow Heaven Sect suffered a rout at Crocodile Dragon Marsh, leaving half of Yellow Province exposed, and the Demonic Beasts turned toward Cloudsky City.

Gu Jinlai prepared Yuntian City’s artillery and defenses for the approaching Demonic Beasts, while the Yellow Heaven Sect planned to march there after suffering heavy losses. The chapter left the two forces poised for a confrontation as the beasts approached Yuntian City.

• Gu Jinlai explained how Yuntian City’s Lijian heavy cannons would bombard the Demonic Beasts and discussed the unfinished Golden Body Mecha with Zhang Yukun and the other Celestial Masters.
• Cheng Wanli reported that the Demonic Beast vanguard was three hundred li away and expected to attack around midnight, so Gu Jinlai ordered Gu Chifeng to position the Demon God Guards.
• Zhang Taiping, Zhao Danqing, and Yu Xuanjing returned to Yellow Heaven City after the battle at Crocodile Dragon Marsh, where the Yellow Heaven Sect had suffered devastating losses.
• Zhang Taiping blamed Lingxiao City for the Yellow Heaven Sect’s losses and ordered an elite force to march toward Yuntian City under the pretense of aiding their Southern Alliance allies.

Gu Jinlai used a life radar and 128 Lijian Heavy Cannons to bombard the approaching demon army before it reached Yuntian City. The guns killed nearly twenty thousand demons from a distance, leaving the Heavenly Masters and commanders stunned as Gu Jinlai declared that the times had changed.

• Gu Jinlai explained how the life radar detected demons and confirmed that the artillery groups had their mirrors and marked maps.
• Gu Chaoyang relayed Gu Jinlai's firing orders, and the cannon crews began bombarding the demons approaching Yuntian City.
• Shang Zhenbei ordered his forces to sweep up demons north of the Sky River, believing Lingxiao City was doomed.
• The demons scattered and charged, but the radar-guided cannons continued firing and killed nearly twenty thousand before the army reached the city.
• Cheng Wanli, Zhang Yukun, Si Tianyan, and the others marveled at the cannons' power as Gu Jinlai said the times had changed.

As Demonic Beasts sent an elite ground force and a large avian unit toward Yuntian City, Gu Jinlai took control of three Blackbird fighters to intercept them. The fighters massacred the avian Demonic Beasts, while the main battle continued to approach the city.

• The Demonic Beasts formed an elite force of 284 Greater Demonic Beasts and launched hundreds of avian Demonic Beasts toward Yuntian City.
• Gu Jinlai handed command to Gu Chaoyang, Zhang Yukun, and Si Tianyan, then divided his True Spirit among three Blackbird fighters.
• The Blackbird fighters took off vertically and accelerated beyond three times the speed of sound, astonishing Cheng Wanli and the Demon God Guards.
• Gu Jinlai's fighters opened fire on the avian Demonic Beasts with their 85-millimeter cannons and destroyed several leading Upper Greater Demonic Beasts.
• After repeated attacks, the Blackbird fighters had killed six Upper, fourteen Middle, and twenty Lower Greater Demonic Beasts without being hit.

Gu Jinlai used the Xuan Niao fighters and Yuntian City’s heavy artillery to attack the approaching flying beasts and great demonic beasts, but the Crocodile Dragon King damaged one fighter and endured the bombardment. With the surviving beasts reaching the city’s field of vision, Gu Jinlai recalled the fighters as the decisive battle began.

• Gu Jinlai piloted three Xuan Niao fighters through the flying beasts, killing them with autocannon fire before attacking the great demonic beasts ahead.
• The Crocodile Dragon King fired its innate divine ability and shattered one fighter’s right wing, forcing Gu Jinlai to turn it toward Yuntian City while the other fighters kept hunting beyond the king’s range.
• Gu Jinlai ordered eight squads to saturate the area where the Crocodile Dragon King and the gathered great demonic beasts were advancing.
• The sixty-four heavy cannons killed or heavily wounded many great demonic beasts, but the Crocodile Dragon King barely suffered damage and the survivors continued toward Yuntian City.
• Gu Jinlai recalled the Xuan Niao fighters as the remaining great demonic beasts entered the city’s field of vision.

Gu Jinlai led Lingxiao City’s forces toward a decisive battle against the Demonic Beasts, promising to fight on the front line and revealing that his trump card could be used again. He charged Crocodile Dragon King and unleashed overwhelming light just as the beast tried to bite him.

• Gu Chaoyang reported that artillery had killed nearly thirty thousand Demonic Beasts, while more than forty thousand still advanced on Yuntian City.
• Gu Jinlai announced he would use his secret treasure again, addressed the troops across the Thousand-Li Light Projection Mirrors, and vowed to fight beside them.
• Gu Jinlai charged toward Crocodile Dragon King, drawing the Great Demonic Beasts’ attacks and evading the king’s blood-red beam with Traversing the World.
• Gu Jinlai overclocked the Eternal Furnace, transformed into a golden, half-energy form, and flew above Crocodile Dragon King.
• Crocodile Dragon King leapt to bite Gu Jinlai, but Gu Jinlai erupted in incandescent brilliance.

Gu Jinlai unleashed a devastating attack that killed the Crocodile Dragon King and annihilated most of the surrounding Demonic Beasts. With the enemy forces leaderless and fleeing, Gu Chaoyang ordered a pursuit, and Gu Jinlai joined the Demon God Guards to finish the remaining beasts.

• Gu Jinlai’s attack incinerated the Crocodile Dragon King and destroyed Demonic Beasts across a wide area.
• The defenders in Yuntian City saw the blast, praised Gu Jinlai as the Lord of the Great Sun, and rallied behind him.
• Gu Chaoyang confirmed that the leaderless Demonic Beasts were retreating and ordered the artillery, Demon God Guards, and reserve forces to pursue.
• Gu Jinlai recovered from his injuries, reunited with the Demon God Guards in armor, and ordered them to capture the fleeing Demonic Beasts and preserve their vital essence.

The Yellow Heaven Sect’s army advanced toward Yuntian City, expecting to arrive after Lingxiao City had begun battling the Demonic Beasts. After learning that Lingxiao City had defeated the beasts, Zhang Taiping and Zhang Lingjian realized that the routed Demonic Beast army was charging straight at their camp.

• Zhang Taiping and Zhang Lingjian discussed Lingxiao City’s weapons and ordered the God-Fighting Army to deal with stray Demonic Beasts along their route.
• Zhang Taiping sent Yu Fan, Zhao Danqing, and Tao Changle with troops to intercept groups of Demonic Beasts approaching the army.
• Zhang Taiping ordered the God-Fighting Army to set up camp, while Zhang Lingjian sent a Spirit Artifact to seek news from Yuntian City.
• Zhao Danqing spotted thousands of Demonic Beasts charging toward the camp and warned the others to prepare for their attack.
• Zhang Lingjian received confirmation that Lingxiao City had defeated the Demonic Beasts, and Zhang Taiping realized the approaching beasts were the routed army, leaving the God-Fighting Army caught in its path.

Gu Jinlai directed Lingxiao City’s forces to drive the fleeing Heavenly River Demonic Beasts into the Yellow Heaven Sect, destroying its army while limiting the beasts’ escape. The Yellow Heaven Sect’s survivors considered attacking Lingxiao City, but learned of its powerful cannons and Gu Jinlai’s treasure capable of a peak Celestial’s strike, and decided to reconsider.

• Gu Jinlai recognized the Yellow Heaven Sect waiting to exploit the battle and redirected the fleeing Demonic Beasts toward its formation.
• The Demon God Guards drove tens of thousands of Demonic Beasts into the Yellow Heaven Sect, whose Battle God Legion and most of its elite troops were wiped out.
• Lingxiao City killed most of the Demonic Beasts, while only three or four thousand escaped and the Yellow Heaven Sect suffered heavy casualties.
• At Maple Leaf City, Yu Fan and the surviving elders mourned the Yellow Heaven Sect’s losses, and Zhang Lingjian and the others blamed Gu Jinlai and vowed revenge.
• Zhang Lingjian reported that Lingxiao City had routed the Demonic Beasts with more than a hundred sharp-sword heavy cannons and that Gu Jinlai had used a treasure capable of a peak Celestial’s strike.
• Zhang Taiping, Zhao Danqing, and Tao Changle abandoned their immediate plan to attack Gu Jinlai and agreed to consider their options carefully.

After Lingxiao City’s victory at Yuntian City, Gu Jinlai considered the limits of the Demon God Warrior system while rival sects reassessed their stance toward his rising power. The Purgatory Sect and Yellow Springs Sect moved to seek his favor, and the Cold Moon Sect began considering how to enlist his help.

• Gu Jinlai concluded that Demon God Warriors would remain inferior to cultivators and Demonic Beasts unless he found a way to complete their system.
• After learning that Gu Jinlai had again destroyed the Crocodile Dragon King and routed the Demonic Beast army, Lu Zhanxian and Zhang Liefeng decided the Purgatory Sect should make amends by sending him Undying Gold.
• Ancestor Youquan ordered Ancestor Sansheng to take a generous gift, including Undying Gold, to Lingxiao City and maintain friendly relations with Gu Jinlai.
• Fang Linghai celebrated Lingxiao City’s victory and considered offering Undying Gold to secure its reinforcements against the Demonic Beasts of Muzhou.
• Fang Linghai asked Fang Yumian what she thought of Gu Jinlai.

Fang Yumian declined her father’s idea of marrying her to Gu Jinlai, while Gu Jinlai chose to withdraw from Cloudsky City and preserve the Yellow Heaven Sect as a buffer against the Demonic Beasts. The imperial court appointed him governor of Star Province and asked him to oversee Jiang Province, then sought to buy Lijian heavy cannons from Lingxiao City.

• Fang Yumian told Fang Linghai that her competitive nature could lead to conflict with Gu Jinlai and harm their relationship with Lingxiao City, so she declined the marriage proposal.
• Gu Jinlai ordered his forces to withdraw from Cloudsky City without revealing their retreat, while continuing to advance under the pretext of exterminating Demonic Beasts until the Yellow Heaven Sect offered sufficient benefits.
• Gu Jinlai welcomed Jiang Zhongshan and General Shang Zhenbei, who explained that Shang had stopped north of the Sky River rather than risk his soldiers in the Demonic Beast tide.
• Jiang Zhongshan announced that the Qian Emperor had appointed Gu Jinlai governor of Star Province and tasked him with overseeing Jiang Province as well.
• Shang Zhenbei asked to purchase Lijian heavy cannons for the imperial capital, and Gu Jinlai offered them at cost for ten portions of Imperishable Fine Gold each.

Gu Jinlai discussed the price of Lijian heavy cannons and developed a hierarchy for cultivators of the Great Sun Demon God Body Tempering Method. He rejected the Yellow Heaven Sect’s attempt to celebrate and pressed it to provide Immortal Gold and answer for Fang Yichen’s actions.

• Shang Zhenbei said he needed the emperor’s approval before accepting the price of ten portions of Immortal Gold per Lijian heavy cannon, and Gu Jinlai offered Jiang Zhongshan a twenty percent discount in recognition of his promise not to trouble Jiang Province.
• Gu Jinlai estimated his physique would reach the high-ranking great Demonic Beast level within a month and created ranks for Great Sun Demon God Body Tempering cultivators, asking Gu Chifeng to review them.
• Gu Jinlai considered engraving spirituality eruption onto heavy armor to strengthen Demon God Guards.
• Yu Jin invited Gu Jinlai to a feast in Lianxing City, but Gu Jinlai refused and told the Yellow Heaven Sect to help clear the Tianhe region instead of celebrating.
• Cheng Wanli advised Yu Jin to offer Immortal Gold to appease Gu Jinlai, while Gu Chaoyang demanded an explanation for Fang Yichen taking Gu Jinlai’s female disciple; Yu Jin agreed to address the matter.

Yellow Heaven Dao arrested Xie Xiaowan, Fang Yichen, and Fang Zhengming to appease Gu Jinlai after the battle at Yuntian City, while its elders tried to use Li Muqing’s family to bargain over Undying Metal. In the Imperial Capital, Emperor Tianji and his ministers debated acquiring Lingxiao City’s weapons, and Wang Yizhi proposed demanding the refining formula while pointing out that Prince Xing was in Star Province.

• Yu Fan accused Xie Xiaowan of betraying her true master, Gu Jinlai, and ordered her and Fang Yichen arrested.
• Fang Zhengming defended the couple, but Yu Fan ordered his arrest too after he disparaged Gu Jinlai.
• Fang Yichen offered to divorce Xie Xiaowan and disown her, but Yu Fan said Lingxiao City had specifically requested him and had all three taken away.
• An enforcement elder suggested sending Li Muqing’s father with Elder Yuzhi to negotiate over the Undying Metal, and Yu Fan approved the plan.
• Emperor Tianji questioned Wang Yizhi, Zhang Hanhai, and Long Yuantu about obtaining Lingxiao City’s weapons, and Wang Yizhi proposed demanding their refining formula.